"Well. Okay. We'll figure things out as they come, I guess."

Nod.

"Thanks for pointing that out."

"You're welcome. I mean, it was substantially motivated by wondering if you thought I learned to commit murder in medical school, but you're welcome."

"When people have bad options you get bad outcomes. I don't know what Earth is or was like, and I'm guessing someone desperate enough to summon a demon to abort their pregnancy would be much better off with you."

"It never actually happened, angels are better for most medical applications that don't involve amputees or comatose people and that's not an exception, I just sort of took everything the school offered and didn't conceptualize it as some kind of assassin training any more than the oncology section."

"I mean, you can also already kill people more ways than could possibly be necessary, the training's presumably for not harming the pregnant person?"

"...right, the pregnant person is supposed to be fine."

"I don't think you're a murderer." Um. "Sorry."

"I have spent most of my life not a murderer."

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have phrased it like that -"

"It's okay."

"It is a great deal better than it'd be without you."

"Sort of vindicating, all those depressing history books."

"It was the right call with the information you had even if the history books all proclaimed that the next year the Valar voted to intervene. But. They don't do that. Six hundred years."

"Six hundred objective years, fuck."

"Yup. Findekáno does level all the servers and most of the Enemy's territory is a irradiated wasteland after the battle a couple decades past that, so he probably doesn't have his current torture capacity for six hundred objective years, but still."

"Yeah."

"What a nightmare."

Wing-putting. (Wings: so convenient for putting.)

He leans in. "I asked Maglor if we can do magic-song shortcuts but apparently they just develop over centuries of practice."

"...spontaneously? That's weird."

"No, there's an art to it, but you can't shortcut the centuries of practice, which is what I wanted."

"Yeah, that's a pity."

"There are a lot of useful ones which were for strategic reasons never committed to paper - he's got a song that makes you think faster - but we can't pull it off in only a few notes."